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    Street Fox
    Street Fox
    Street Fox
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    Street Fox

    By C. J. Brightley

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    A boy learns heroes still exist.

    This is a short story set in the world of the series Erdemen Honor. It stands alone but also is a prequel/introduction to an upcoming novel and takes place several generations after The King's Sword. It is approximately 6300 words.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSpring Song Press
    Release dateFeb 15, 2013
    ISBN9781310235948
    Street Fox
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    C. J. Brightley

    C. J. Brightley grew up in Georgia. After a career in national security, she turned her attention to writing. She lives with her husband and young children in Northern Virginia. She blogs at CJBrightley.com, where you can find sneak peeks of upcoming books, deleted scenes, background material, thoughts on writing, and books she enjoys.She also runs the Noblebright.org website dedicated to highlighting the best of noblebright fantasy. Noblebright fantasy characters have the courage to risk kindness, honesty, integrity, and love; to fight against their own flaws and the darkness of the world around them; and to find hope in a grim world.

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      Street Fox - C. J. Brightley

      Street Fox

      Street Fox

      C. J. Brightley

      Egia, LLC

      Contents

      Also by C. J. Brightley

      Street Fox

      Afterword

      This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      STREET FOX. Copyright 2012 by C. J. Brightley. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. For information address info@cjbrightley.com.

      Also by C. J. Brightley

      Erdemen Honor

      The King’s Sword

      A Cold Wind

      Honor’s Heir

      Erdemen Tales

      Heroes

      Color

      Heroes and Other Stories

      A Long-Forgotten Song

      Things Unseen

      The Dragon’s Tongue

      The Beginning of Wisdom

      Fairy King

      A Fairy King

      A Fairy Promise

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      Street Fox

      When I was a child, I believed the stories of the great heroes. Kardu, whose exploits live on in the great Kardu’s Song. Tarmo Hiraku, who united the Tuyet tribes against the Tarvil. From the Third Age, which is dying now, Kemen Sendoa, who saved the king Hakan Ithel and shaped him into the greatest king Erdem ever knew.

      By the time I reached the age of nine, I knew that such stories were only stories, told to small children to drive the dark away. Children need to believe in heroes. It gives them hope. But in my world, hope was precious and rare. It was autumn, a time that should have been rich in the harvest, but my family had long been at the edge of despair. When my mother followed my father into death, I lost the last of my hope.

      My

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